receptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of recipiō (“take back; receive”).

Participle

receptus (feminine recepta, neuter receptum); first/second-declension participle

1. (having been) taken, retaken, regained, recovered
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.13:

     Quod eo oppido recepto, civitatem Biturigum se in potestatem redacturum confidebat.

     Because he was confident that having taken that town, he would reduce the state of the Bituriges under (his) dominion.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.553–554:

     “Sī datur Ītaliam, sociīs et rēge receptō,
     tendere, ut Ītaliam laetī Latiumque petāmus.”

     “So if we are permitted to set course [for] Italy, with [our] crews and king recovered, then Italy and Latium we may desire gladly.”

2. received, having been received

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	receptus	recepta	receptum		receptī	receptae	recepta
genitive	receptī	receptae	receptī		receptōrum	receptārum	receptōrum
dative	receptō	receptae	receptō		receptīs
accusative	receptum	receptam	receptum		receptōs	receptās	recepta
ablative	receptō	receptā	receptō		receptīs
vocative	recepte	recepta	receptum		receptī	receptae	recepta

Descendants

• Asturian: receta
• → Catalan: recepta
• → English: receipt
• Old French: reçoit (from receptus), recete, receite, reçoite (from recepta)
  • French: recette, reçoit (Burgundian French)
• Friulian: ricet, ricete
• → German: Rezept
• Italian: ricetto, ricetta
• → Occitan: recèpta
• Old Galician-Portuguese: receita
  • Galician: receita
  • Portuguese: receita
• → Polish: recepta
• Romanian: rețetă
• Romansch: retschet
• Sicilian: rizzettu, rizzetta, ricetta
• Spanish: receta, → recepto
• Venetan: receto, receta, riseta

Noun

receptus m (genitive receptūs); fourth declension

1. retreat (falling back)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 6.9:

     Ne ad eos Ambiorix receptum haberet.

     So that Ambiorix not have a retreat to them

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	receptus	receptūs
genitive	receptūs	receptuum
dative	receptuī	receptibus
accusative	receptum	receptūs
ablative	receptū	receptibus
vocative	receptus	receptūs

References

• “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “receptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• receptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• receptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the retreat is sounded: signa receptui canunt
    
  • the retreat is sounded: receptui canitur (B. G. 7. 47)
    
  • (ambiguous) it is traditional usage: more, usu receptum est
    
  • (ambiguous) the cavalry covers the retreat: equitatus tutum receptum dat